Driving Downtown - New York City New York USA - Episode 46. [A Tour of Broadway]\r
Starting Point: Broadway - . End Point: . Most of Route - Broadway.\r
The City of New York, often called New York City, New York, or simply The City, is the most populous city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. With an estimated new population of 8.5 million, New York is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant imp upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.\r
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Economy\r
New York is a global hub of international business and commerce. The city is a major center for banking and finance, retailing, world trade, transportation, tourism, real estate, new media, traditional media, advertising, legal services, accountancy, insurance, theater, fashion, and the arts in the United States; while Silicon Alley, metonymous for New Yorks broad-spectrum high technology sphere, continues to expand. \r
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Race and Ethnicity\r
Approximately 37% of the citys population is foreign born. In New York, no single country or region of origin dominates. The ten largest sources of foreign-born individuals in the city as of new were the Dominican Republic, China, Mexico, Guyana, Jamaica, Ecuador, Haiti, India, Russia, and Trinidad and Tobago, while the Bangladeshi immigrant population has since become one of the fastest growing in the city, counting over 74,000 by new.\r
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Tourism\r
Tourism is a vital industry for New York City, which has witnessed a growing combined volume of international and domestic tourists, receiving a sixth consecutive record of nearly 60 million visitors in new. Tourism had generated an all-time high US$61.3 billion in overall economic imp for New York City in new, pending new statistics. Approximately 12 million visitors to New York City were from outside the United States, with the highest numbers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, and China. According to the website reuters.com, New York City tourism climb[ed] record high in new for [the] sixth year.\r
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Sports\r
Sports in New York City have a long and distinguished history. New York City is home to the headquarters of the National Football League, the National Hockey League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer. The New York metropolitan area hosts the most sports teams in these five professional leagues. Four of the ten most expensive stadiums ever built worldwide (MetLife Stadium, the new Yankee Stadium, Madison Square Garden, and Citi Field) are located in the New York metropolitan area.\r
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Architecture\r
Manhattans skyline, with its many skyscrapers, is universally recognized, and the city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world. As of new, New York City had 5,937 high-rise buildings, of which 550 completed structures were at least 330 feet (100 m) high, both second in the world after Hong Kong, with over 50 completed skyscrapers taller than 656 feet (200 m). These include the Woolworth Building (1913), an early gothic revival skyscraper built with massively scaled gothic detailing.\r
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Transportation\r
Rail\r
The iconic New York City Subway system is the largest rapid transit system in the world when measured by stations in operation, with 469, and by length of routes. Nearly all of New Yorks subway system is open 24 hours a day, in contrast to the overnight shutdown common to systems in most cities, including Hong Kong, London, Paris, Seoul, and Tokyo.\r
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Aviation\r
New Yorks airspace is the busiest in the United States and one of the worlds busiest air transportation corridors. The three busiest airports in the New York metropolitan area include John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport.\r
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Buses\r
New York Citys public bus fleet is the largest in North America.\r
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Taxis\r
Other features of the citys transportation infrastructure encompass more than 12,000 yellow taxicabs.\r
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Top Attrions:\r
Central Park\r
The Metropolitan Museum of Art\r
Top of the Rock Observation Deck\r
Manhattan Skyline \r
The High Line \r
Broadway\r
Grand Central Terminal\r
Empire State Building\r
Statue of Liberty\r
One World Observatory - World Trade Center\r
Radio City Music Hall\r
Rockefeller Center\r
New York Public Library\r
Madison Square Garden